Fabian Society New Year Conference 2025: BRITAIN 2030

09.00 – 10.30 | Security, Accreditation and Registration

10.30 – 11.00 | Welcome

• Cllr Sara Hyde – Chair, Fabian Society
• Joe Dromey – General Secretary, Fabian Society

11.15 – 12.15 | Growth Worth Sharing

• Dame Meg Hillier MP – Chair, Treasury Select Committee
• Dr Jeevun Sandher MP – Treasury Select Committee
• Ann Pettifor – Economist
• Praful Nargund – Director, Good Growth Foundation
• Sasjkia Otto – Senior Researcher, Fabian Society
• Aletha Adu – Political Correspondent, The Guardian

11.15 – 12.15 | Britain Means Business – in Partnership with ICAEW

• Sarah Jones MP – Minister of State for Industry
• Liam Byrne MP – Chair, Business and Trade Select Committee
• Iain Wright – Managing Director, Reputation and Influence, ICAEW
• Mike Soutar – Businessman and star of ‘The Apprentice’
• Sarah Taaffe-Maguire – Business and Economics Reporter, Sky News

11.15 – 12.15| Britain Centre Stage

• Matt Forde – Comedian, Impressionist, Writer and Presenter
• Philippa Childs – Deputy General Secretary, BECTU sector of Prospect
• Ava-Santina Evans – Political Correspondent, PoliticsJOE
• Margaret Pinder – Labour candidate for Hull and East Yorkshire Mayoralty
• Ben Cooper – Research Manager, Fabian Society

11.15 – 12.15 | Beyond Britain’s Borders

• Anneliese Dodds MP – Minister of State for International Development
• Naomi Smith – CEO, Best for Britain
• Richard Blewitt – Executive Director of International, British Red Cross
• Sarah Johnson – Reporter, human rights and global development, The Guardian

12.30 – 13.30 | Keynote Speech

• Wes Streeting MP – Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
• In conversation with Lewis Goodall – Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Host ‘The News Agents

13.30 – 14.30 | Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 | Investing in the Future: Skills in a Changing Economy – Young Fabians

• Seema Malhotra MP – Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
• Dr Jeevun Sandher MP – Treasury Select Committee
• Professor Sandra McNally – Director of the Education and Skills Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
• Professor Ken Spours – Emeritus Professor of Post Compulsory Education at the UCL Institute of Education
• Kevin Finnigan – Teacher and Fabian Education Policy Group
• Rosanna Jackson – Co-Chair, Young Fabians

14.30 – 15:30 | Climate of Change

• Mete Coban MBE – Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy
• Tone Langengen – Senior Policy Advisor, Climate and Energy, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
• Megan Corton Scott – Deputy Director, Labour Climate and Environment Forum
• Fiona Harvey – Environment Editor, The Guardian
• Eloise Sacares – Researcher, Fabian Society

14.30 – 15.30 | Better Homes Ahead

• Tom Copley – Deputy Mayor of London for Housing and Residential Development
• Kwajo Tweneboa – Housing and Social Issues Campaigner
• Olivia Gagan – Journalist and Writer
• Ben Cooper – Research Manager, Fabian Society
• Ava-Santina Evans – Political Correspondent, PoliticsJOE
• Matthew Torbitt – Writer, Broadcaster, Homelessness Campaigner

14.30 – 15.30 | Raising Living Standards: A Women’s Perspective – Fabian Women’s Network

• Yuan Yang MP – Treasury Select Committee
• Sem Moema AM – London Assembly Member-Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest. Chair, Housing Committee
• Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson – Director, Women’s Budget Group
• Emily Holzhausen – Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Carers UK
• Dr Liz Hind – Women’s Budget Group and Fabian Women’s Network

15.45 – 16.45 | Keynote Speech

• Steve Reed MP – Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• In conversation with Chris Smyth – Whitehall Editor, The Times

17.00 – 18.00 | Across the Pond

• Dame Emily Thornberry MP – Chair, Foreign Affairs Select Committee
• Jon Sopel – Journalist, Broadcaster, Author, Host ‘The News Agents’
• Luke Tryl – Executive Director, More in Common UK
• Kristin Wolfe – UK Chair, Democrats Abroad
• Jovan Owusu-Nepaul – Campaigner and former parliamentary candidate